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International Polar Year

International Polar Year 2007-2008 – The international web site for the current IPY

Indigenous Peoples International Polar Year – The International Polar Year promotes constructive and respectful engagement with northern people, through community monitoring, through acknowledgement and protection of traditional knowledge, and through inclusion of northern people as valued partners in planning and conducting IPY and in evaluating and assessing IPY results and legacies.

U.S. IPY – This site serves as a gateway to information generated by U.S. federal agencies and their grantees about activities during the International Polar Year (IPY).

U.S. Committee to the IPY – The web site for a group of volunteers appointed by the US National Academy of Sciences to facilitate US participation in IPY.

Changes in Sea-Ice Extent

The Cryosphere Today – A web space devoted to the current state
of our cryosphere

Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis– Cryosphere Processes and Feedbacks

20th Century Changes of the Arctic Sea Ice Cover – by Dr. Norbert Untersteiner, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington

Sea Ice Decline Intensifies: Summer 2008 Arctic sea ice continues long-term decline

Definitions

What is the Arctic? Includes a map of the region.

What is the cryosphere? Also includes lots of information about glaciers, sea ice, snow, avalanches, blizzards, and arctic meteorology.

Polar Research Around Puget Sound University of Washington

  • Polar Science Center
  • Applied Physics Laboratory
  • Atmospheric Science
  • School of Oceanography
  • Polar Research at UW Oceanography
  • Glaciology
  • Earth and Space Sciences Glaciology
  • Penguin Studies

NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)

  • Arctic theme page

NOAA National Marine Mammals Laboratory (NMML)

  • Polar Ecosystems Program
  • Alaska Ecosystems Research Program
  • Bowhead Whale, Balena mysticetus: Its Historic and Current Status

Earth and Space Research (ESR)

Northwest Research Associates (NWRA)

ABOUT PSC

  • Bonnie Light, PSC Chair, Welcome»
  • The Polar Science Center is a group of dedicated investigators conducting interdisciplinary research on the oceanography, climatology, meteorology, biology and ecology of the ice-covered regions on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system. Learn more »

SCIENTIST LINKS

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  • Ian Joughin
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  • Ben Smith

POPULAR RESOURCES

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  • SIZRS Flights
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